#23 - Canal Killers - John Sweeney Part 1 (King's Cross, London, N1)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 29 March 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
PART 1 OF 2: On 19th February 2001, at Battlebridge Basin, ten dismembered body-parts, belonging to an unidentified woman, wrapped in six separate bags, were found submerged in the Regent's Canal. But who was she? And who had murdered her?
- Date: Monday 19th February 2015
- Location: Regent's Canal / Battlebridge Basin, King's Cross, London, N1
- Victims: 1 (Melissa Halstead & Paula Fields)
- Culprit: John Sweeney
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:10.0 | A true crime podcast and audio-guided walk |
| 0:13.2 | featuring many of London's untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murders. |
| 0:19.0 | All set within one square mile of the West End. |
| 0:23.6 | Today's episode is about John Sweeney, a deeply deluded, dangerous and violent alcoholic, |
| 0:31.6 | whose jealousy, rage and hatred of women left the bloody trail of body parts across Europe. |
| 0:40.3 | Murder Mile contains graphic descriptions of death which may offend, as well as realistic sounds, |
| 0:46.3 | so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there. |
| 0:56.8 | My name is Michael. |
| 0:59.1 | I am your tour guide. |
| 1:02.4 | This is Murder Mile. |
| 1:08.1 | Episode 23, Canal Killers, |
| 1:12.6 | John Sweeney Part 1 Today I'm chugging along the Regents Canal |
| 1:23.6 | passing a recently renovated part of King's Cross called Battle Bridge Basin. |
| 1:29.3 | A former Victorian wharf in which vast blocks of Arctic ice were once stored in stone cellars, |
| 1:36.3 | providing the city with a steady supply of cold drinks, fresh fruit and ice cream, |
| 1:41.3 | back in the days before fridges. |
| 1:47.8 | Oh, a historical tidbit. |
| 1:49.5 | How fascinating! |
| 1:57.7 | Now Battlebridge is perched in the typical kind of former crack hovel and Hawhaven, which property developers cram full of empty art galleries, wanky wine bars, |
| 2:03.4 | offices for assholes, and hardly used shagpads, having conned a couple of hipster half-wits |
| 2:09.2 | to stump up a big watch of cash for a drafty shithole in an up-and-coming area, |
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